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Bustling streets and long queues at supermarkets highlighted South Africa’s struggle to adapt to a new lockdown on Friday, as the country recorded its first Coronavirus death.   In the poor township of Alexandra near Johannesburg’s financial district, a group of men drank openly in the street until police intervened and ordered …

The Government has on Saturday, March 28, inaugurated a support initiative to vulnerable families who have been affected by the lockdown aimed to curb the spread of COVID-19. The move is in line with what President Paul Kagame had highlighted in his address to the nation on Friday, March 27, …

Uproar has greeted the manner in which police officers executed curfew orders on Friday, with some rights groups calling for civic education for them and the public. In Nyanza, lobbies said the government must protect civilians’ rights in effecting the indefinite 7pm-5am curfew aimed at curbing spread of the deadly …

Many female head porters generally called Kayayei have trooped major lorry stations in Accra with their belongings in an attempt to run away to other cities to avoid the lock down. Photos and videos tendered in on Saturday evening by reporters on from the Mallam Atta market, Neoplan station in Circle, …

News of the Queen testing positive for COVID-19 does not come as a surprise since there was a possibility that she could have been exposed by the virus during one of her weekly meetings with Prime Minister Boris Johnson who tested positive an hour ago, according to UCR. Royal Palace …

More than 500 slum dwellers at Dagombaline in the Ashanti Region have been rendered homeless after fire destroyed wooden structures that served as homes for head porters and scrap dealers. It is barely a month after fire gutted other parts of the slum, displacing about 13,000 persons, according to the National Disaster …

The princess of the Bourbon-Parma Royal Family in Spain, passed away at the age of 86, after contracting the virus days earlier, Prince Sixtus Henry of Bourbon-Parma, announced. She was born in Paris, France on July 28, 1933 to parents, Prince Xavier and Madeleine de Bourbon, who had a t …

The Damongo Police on Thursday 26th March 2020 arrested two young men, a Butcher called Majeed Yussif and a pantry boy at the Damongo Senior High School called Malik Zonzuwura for assaulting the Damongo Reporter of Bole based Nkilgi FM Zion Abdul- Rauf. The statement of the two young men …

A notorious armed robber known to operate on the Bole-Bamboi-Wa highway has been shot to death by police, Saturday. A planned highway robbery by Hassan Lanya and two other armed robbers was disrupted when the Police Intelligence Directorate at Teselima in the Bole district of the Savannah Region learned about the planned …

Two institutions have called for the arrest of parents and guardians who let loose their children to loiter or engage in hawking in the wake of COVID-19 pandemic. The institutions, the Commission on Human Rights and Administrative Justice (CHRAJ) and the National Commission for Civic Education (NCCE) described the phenomenon …

Asamoah Gyan has recommended neem leaves to prevent the spread of the coronavirus around Africa. Also known as the Indian lilac, the tree is popular in Africa because of its bark, leaves, and the seeds contain medicinal properties. Neem leaves are good to kill bacteria as well as cure leprosy, eye …

Ghana Football Association (GFA) general secretary Prosper Harrison Addo has stated clubs will be given time to prepare their teams before the Premier League resumes after the coronavirus pandemic. The top-flight is in the second week of a one-month suspension as part of the measures to curb the spread of …

Parliament has approved a total of €55.024 million credit facility agreement between the Government of Ghana and the Deutsche Bank to finance the development of Phase- Two of the University of Environment and Sustainable Development (UESD) at Somanya in the Eastern Region. The agreement is made up of a Sace …

Government has empowered the security forces to enforce the partial lockdown of certain parts of the country in order to contain the spread of the COVID-19 virus, President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo, has said. “Let me also reiterate that the ban on public gatherings, religious or social, is still in …

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumua, has followed the exemplary gesture of President Akufo-Addo by donating three months of his salary to Ghana’s COVID-19 Fund. In his broadcast to the nation on Friday night, President Akufo-Addo, among other measures, announced the establishment of a COVID-19 Fund to raise money to …

US President Donald Trump has said he is considering imposing a quarantine on New York in a bid to slow the spread of the coronavirus. “We’d like to see [it] quarantined because it’s a hotspot,” he told reporters. “I’m thinking about that.” He spoke as confirmed cases in the state …

The Vice President, Dr. Mahamudu Bawumua, has followed the exemplary gesture of President Akufo-Addo by donating three months of his salary to Ghana’s COVID-19 Fund. In his broadcast to the nation on Friday night, President Akufo-Addo, among other measures, announced the establishment of a COVID-19 Fund to raise money to …

Dancehall artiste, Charles Nii Armah Mensah, popularly known as Shatta Wale, has showered praises on President Nana Akufo-Addo for granting presidential pardon to 808 prisoners. President Akufo-Addo, upon the recommendations from the Prisons Services Council and in consultation with the Council of State, freed 797 prisoners and commuted the sentences …

Some Muslims in the Northern region have been arrested for defying President Nana Akufo-Addo’s public gathering ban. The culprits were picked-up from two mosques in separate locations – Bamvum and Tesec junction – by a joint taskforce deployed by the Regional Minister. The joint taskforce deployed, according to the Northern …

The police in Delta state is currently on the trail of one Onuwa Oliseh for allegedly killing his 7-year-old nephews, Chiagozie and Chidalu Agwunobi, for money rituals in Oko Ogbele Community, Oshimili South Local Government Area of Delta State. The distraught father of the deceased twins, 52 year old Agwunobi Oliseh, said the …

AChinese national was reportedly left to his own fate after he was involved in a car accident amidst the wake of Coronavirus pandemic. The man was stuck inside the car pleading for help but people were just looking at him instead of rescuing his life. It took the intervention of …

President Nana Addo Dankwa Akufo-Addo says his government has what it takes to resuscitate Ghana’s economy in the event that the current deadly coronavirus outbreak causes it to flounder in the coming months. Economies across the globe are expected to stall in the coming weeks measures taken by governments to …

The World Health Organization plans to reach at least 50 million people with a WhatsApp information service that delivers information on demand about the coronavirus and is so successful in South Africa it will be used around the world. The free service, the first of its kind launched globally by …

Former President of the Musicians Union of Ghana (MUSIGA), Bice Osei Kuffuor aka Obour, has reportedly clashed with the workers of Ridge Hospital over the mortal remains of his late father, Nana Osei Boansi Kuffour. An eyewitness told Onua FM’s Christian Agyei Frimpong in an interview monitored by Zionfelix.net on …

For the umpteenth time, we are asking that all join hands in fighting the invisible enemy. It is elating that the story has sunk in and most Ghanaians are adhering largely to the basic preventive measures as laid out by the Health Ministry. While we salute personnel of the Ghana …